Not for not, but BigCouch's "logo" has been sans human figure for nearly four years. This is from Adam Kocloski's slide deck at Erlang Factory SF, March 2011:
http://f.cl.ly/items/3U0A1s0r361Z1Y3v1p1b/big-couch-logo.png That's just the earliest I can find it in a slide deck. I did find a few where the figure is a tiny person which I think was meant to show that the couch was bigger. I always thought that one was a bit silly myself. While I'm not super excited to see our logo change, I can see how it could be misinterpreted which is probably reason enough to think about changing it. HTH, Paul On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Oct 27, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Interesting, but those CouchBase jerks already did it: > > Watch whom you're calling a jerk, please. > >> We might own the concept of Couch and the original red couch logo, > > Uh, you can't own a "concept". You can own a patent, copyright or trademark. > The Apache Foundation probably owns trademarks on the name CouchDB™ and the > couch-with-person-on-it logo, but I'm pretty sure it explicitly disclaims > patent rights. (Companies are pretty skittish of patent-encumbered > open-source technologies these days.) > >> but I am sure they'll get angry and make our lives difficult if we make ours >> look similar to theirs. > > Really, I don't think Couchbase is overly concerned about what logo designs > Apache projects are using. :) Unless maybe you picked _exactly the same_ logo > as our current or past (2011-13) one, which would be both lame and > unimaginative. There are a million possible logo designs based on couches, > with a lot of room for creativity! > > (As for the controversy, I like the current CouchDB logo and it seems a > stretch to consider it offensive. I'm sure one can fill in that white > silhouette with lewd details, but that says more about the person looking at > it than the design itself. "Honi soit qui mal y pense".) > > —Jens (who is not a lawyer and does not speak for Couchbase)
